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Snowmen and Good News
Last night’s snow was significant enough for me to shovel and ‘sticky’ enough to make a snowman. My youngest has been eagerly awaiting this day and so after breakfast we bundled up and started working. It wasn’t quite perfect packing… Continue reading
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More Self Portraits on Zoom
This mornings zoom was an opportunity to practice more self portraits. I realized towards the end of the zoom that I hadn’t turned on the lights and the curtains were mostly closed. When I held my painting up to the… Continue reading
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Looking up
Tomorrow is intake for the group show at Anton with the theme Sky & Space. Tonight I had to decide which pieces to enter so I could order the prints to be ready in the morning. Thank goodness for Walgreens.… Continue reading
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Silly self portraits
This month’s inspirational theme for my art club is self-portraits, so for this morning’s Zoom with June I played around with some silly versions of a self portrait. The first was myself as a sleepy pear. I have really been… Continue reading
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Beyond 366
Today I submitted my entry for the Michigan Annual show at Anton Art Center. I took some new photographs of it, but it is hard to capture it fully in two dimensions. I took pictures from different angles hoping to… Continue reading
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Sculpted zinnias in clay
Since I have been on a flower streak this week, I decided to continue the theme for my pottery Wednesday. I’ve done tulips, roses, lavender, sunflowers and poppies before so today I thought I’d challenge myself with zinnias. The flower… Continue reading
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And tulips for today
I don’t have a purple paint in my watercolor palette. So every time I use purple I mix it up. I use purple a lot! As I seldom clean out the wells of my palette, there was some purple left… Continue reading
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Continuing my loose watercolor flower trend
I decided that I am enjoying the challenge of loosening up my watercolor paintings and decided to continue my floral theme this week with a loose lilac rendition. The loose style is still a challenge for me. I have never… Continue reading
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Bright loose dandelions for a wet grey day
It was a grey wet day today. Lovely Michigan drizzle. But at least it was wet roads and not icy roads around this weekend. January and February often give few sunny days so I try to create some sunshine with… Continue reading
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Busy day of Artsy things
Today was a busy artsy day for me. I had two openings, the Michigan Annual at Anton and the Today’s Weather at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial. Since I couldn’t attend both at the same time my mom generously represented… Continue reading
366 Days of Art 